Ifs Quotes - Page 20

For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

Eamon

Two, People, Car

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Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.

Kweisi Mfume

Meaningful, Generations, Lessons

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You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

Jay Feaster

Years, Ideas, Numbers

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If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.

Umberto Boccioni

Struggle, Law, Phases

"Les exposants au public". Booklet, p. 8, February 1912.

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Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.

Mark Tobey

Should Have, Understanding, Humanity

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I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.

Marsden Hartley

Expectations, Sacred, Firsts

Letter to Adelaide Kuntz; as cited in "Marsden Hartley", by Gail R. Scott, 1988, p. 130, October 24, 1939.

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the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.

Marsden Hartley

Easter, Islands, Race

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In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?

Dana Gioia

Voice, Age, Purpose

"Fallen Western Star". Denver Quarterly, Fall 1998.

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Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.

Richard J. Foster

Jesus, Prayer, Children

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Stanislaw Ulam

Giving Up, Creative, Important

"Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 3: "Travels Abroad", p. 55, 1991.

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Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.

Stanislaw Ulam

Feelings, Nuclear, World

"Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

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You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Book, Believe, Thinking

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If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hurt, Blow, Littles

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Angel, Wind

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A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Thinking, Vanity, Wind

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Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

Arshile Gorky

Art, Moving, Movement

Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Expression, Giving, Feelings

Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.

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Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

John Cowper Powys

Book, Writing, Animal

John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

Russell L. Ackoff

Data, Suffering, Trying

"Management Misinformation Systems". Management Sciences Vol. 14, No. 4, (p. 148), December 1967.

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If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

Frederick Franck

Reality, Stills, Ultimate

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Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

David Fontana

Reality, Essence, Expectations

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And if this is illegal, then sue me!

Fred Smoot

Illegal

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Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

Chris Asplen

Labs, Congress, Capacity

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You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you

Eamon

Upset, Needs, Looks

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It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

David Ayer

War, Order, Two

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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